Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Biography
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Jean Toomer: The Fluidity of Racial Identity Face to Face: A blog from the National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution 2012-07-20 Elizabeth Brevard, Intern Catalog of American Portraits National Portrait Gallery Jean Toomer / Marjorie Content / Gelatin silver print, c. 1934 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ©Susan L. Sandberg An author, philosopher, and spiritual…
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A Black Nurse, a German Soldier and an Unlikely WWII Romance The New York Times 2013-05-14 Alexis Clark The nurse and the soldier may never have met – and eventually married – had it not been for the American government’s mistreatment of black women during World War II. Elinor Elizabeth Powell was an African-American military…
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Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…
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‘Yokohama Yankee’: a family’s lineage in both Japan and America The Seattle Times Books 2013-04-01 David Takami, Special to The Seattle Times ‘Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan’ by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp. Leslie Helm’s remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. At a memorial…
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Community Profiles – Melissa Nobles MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Great Ideas Change the World 2013-04-21 Leda Zimmerman “All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” says Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and ethnic injustice, Nobles has developed a…
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What does it mean that Lawrence Dennis—arguably the “brains” behind U.S. fascism—was born black but spent his entire adult life passing for white?
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William F. Yardley The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (Version 2.0) 2009-12-25 Lewis L. Laska Tennessee State University William F. Yardley, an influential and powerful advocate for the legal rights of blacks, was the first African American to run for governor of Tennessee. Yardley was born in 1844, the child of a white mother…
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Leo Branton Jr., Activists’ Lawyer, Dies at 91 The New York Times 2013-04-27 William Yardley Associated Press Leo Branton Jr. with Angela Davis during her 1972 trial on murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges. She was acquitted. Leo Branton Jr., a California lawyer whose moving closing argument in a racially and politically charged murder trial in…
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Leslie Helm’s decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family’s 140 years in Japan, beginning with his German great grandfather, who worked as a military adviser in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family’s poignant experiences of love and war help Helm learn to embrace…
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Random House 2012-09-18 432 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-307-38246-7 Tom Reiss Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo—a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count…